Nintendo Patches Original Switch eShop Speed in 2017 Update — Nintendo Switch 2 Update Notes
Nintendo Switch 2 update notes turned practical for original Switch owners earlier this week, when Nintendo pushed an update that made the original Switch eShop run much faster. The store now feels much closer to the Switch 2 version for people still using older hardware.
Original Switch eShop gets faster
The original Switch eShop launched with the console in 2017 and was described as a slow, buggy mess from the start, so this update targets one of the oldest complaints around Nintendo’s digital store. For shoppers on original Switch systems, the immediate payoff is less waiting between storefront pages and a store that now resembles the Switch 2 eShop much more closely.
Users on BlueSky shared clips showing the storefront moving faster after the update, and one user wrote, “Look at it gooooooo.” That reaction tracks with the kind of change people actually feel day to day, because storefront speed is one of the few console software fixes that changes every search, every category hop, and every return trip to the home screen.
BlueSky clips show the change
The update did not fully fix discoverability problems for new games in the original eShop, which is the part that still complicates shopping even after the speed gain. Nintendo still allows plenty of games to support the original Switch hardware, so the faster store matters to a large installed base rather than a shrinking group of holdouts.
The original Switch family has sold 155.92 million units across the Switch, Switch Lite and Switch OLED models, so the change reaches far beyond one device revision. For buyers with an older unit, the practical result is simple: the store is less frustrating to use, but it is not yet the clean search and discovery system some players still want.
Millions still on Switch
The remaining gap is discoverability, not raw speed, and that leaves the update as a partial fix rather than a full rewrite of the storefront experience. Tuesday, 16th June 2026 marked the publication date of the article describing the change, but the more relevant fact for users is that Nintendo already pushed the patch and the faster store is now on original Switch consoles.
